Abstract: Autobiography and study, relating to intelligence and state security activities of the Ministerio del Interior of Cuba.

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives

Language of the Materials : In Spanish and English.

Creator:
Rodríguez Menier, Juan Antonio, 1934-

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1959 – Joined general strike called by Fidel after Batista fled the country

1959 – Joined the Directorate of Intelligence of the Rebel Army (DIER), later known as the G-2

1960 – Recruiting activities for the Cuban Intelligence service know as M

1961 – Debriefing Officer of the Department of State Security

1962 – Intelligence Officer; wrote the ‘Guidelines of Norms and Procedures’ for the judiciary section of the department of
operations of the General Directorate of Counter-Intelligence (GDCI)

1963 – Department Head of the General Directorate of the National Revolutionary Police

1964 – Second Head of the Center of Intelligence of Cuba in Budapest, Hungary

1964 – Graduated from the Manuel Márquez Sterling National School of Journalism at the University of Havana; appointed to
the Foodstuffs Ministry as Chief of a special meat export plan personally directed by Fidel Castro

1969 – Wrote the “Guidelines of Norms and Procedures” for the public service section of the Department of operations of the
DGCI; wrote and directed two Ministry of Interior TV programs; appointed as the head of the office of the DGCI at the Cuban
Institute of Radio and TV (ICRT)

1971-1973 – Wrote several short stories edited by the Interior Ministry and published by the Moncada magazine

1974 – Appointed Vice-director of the Cuban TV; assigned mission to South Africa to investigate Cuban fishing vessels that
had been sabotaged as well as secretly studying the possibilities of utilizing the Cuban fishing fleet to carry covet operations

1982 – Reassigned to East Germany at the Cuban intelligence center as a DCI official; gave several conferences about police
and crime related activities, repeated in 1986

1983 – Called back to Cuba to carry on the TV secret programs

1986 – Appointed by Jose Abrantes as the Second Head of the Center of Intelligence in Budapest, Hungry ascending to the rank
of Major; several conferences about police and crime related activities

1987 – Obtained political asylum in the United States for his wife and four children

1988 – Finished writing ‘The Myth of the G-2,’ a book based on my experiences from 1959 until 1986

1988-1989 – Organized several conferences about intelligence and counter-intelligence activities to U.S. federal agencies

1993 – Finished writing ‘The Inside of the MININT’

Scope and Content of Collection

The collection consists of drafts and printed matter related to “The Inside of the MININT,” a book written by Rodriguez Menier
describing the background, organization, and operative methods of the Cuban Ministry of Interior as well as a timeline. The
collection is arranged in two groups, English drafts and Spanish drafts.